From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ulrich Mueller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C-x 2 and C-x 3 Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:41:13 +0200 Message-ID: <20135.51113.455424.214783@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> References: <87wrbs5vsx.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1319618495 26888 80.91.229.12 (26 Oct 2011 08:41:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:41:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 26 10:41:31 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RIz3C-0000mF-UR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:41:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57689 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RIz3C-0007up-GI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 04:41:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:58416) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RIz3A-0007uk-DI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 04:41:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RIz39-0006mp-D7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 04:41:28 -0400 Original-Received: from a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de ([134.93.134.1]:55205) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RIz39-0006lH-1G; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 04:41:27 -0400 Original-Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) by a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id p9Q8fDH2006026; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:41:13 +0200 Original-Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.5/8.14.2) with ESMTP id p9Q8fD0A012605; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:41:13 +0200 Original-Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id p9Q8fDT9012604; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:41:13 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87wrbs5vsx.fsf@gnu.org> X-Mailer: VM 8.1.1 under 23.3.3 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 134.93.134.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:145554 Archived-At: >>>>> On Wed, 26 Oct 2011, Chong Yidong wrote: > Martin recently introduced the command names > split-window-above-each-other -> C-x 2 > split-window-side-by-side -> C-x 3 > for which split-window-{vertically|horizontally} are now aliases. > I don't mind the attempt to address the vertical/horizontal > ambiguity, but the new names aren't ungrammatical. In English, > "split X above each other" sounds like a nonsense phrase, and "split > X side by side" isn't much better. > How about split-window-by-width or split-window-by-height? Or can > someone suggest something better? Sorry, but may I ask what is the problem with the traditional names of these commands? They seem to fit well into the systematics of other commands like mouse-split-window-{horizontally,vertically} and {enlarge,shrink}-window-horizontally. Or is the plan to rename all of them? Ulrich